Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-09-23

If, as some writer asserts, "the mountains
have ever been the home of freedom" yet
the seaside has always been the nursery of
intellect. The great poets artists, orators,
historians, statesmen and engineers of Eu-
rope and America have, with few exceptions,
been born and raised within sight and sound
of the sea. Those babies who shall have the
good luck to be born at Lucadia will, in the
| next centary, be famous, for Lcucadia is to be
the home OF mauy artists and authors,
whose children, both with respect to their
parents and their birth place, will be "born in
the purple"
You cannot overstate the advantages of
such a country-you cannot over-boom it,
Here it is. 1t talks for itself with voices of
health and. of beauty; voices of healing and
of life; voices of vigorous ozone and entic-
ing balm; voices of Christmas roses and of
oleanders and lilies blooming in the jan
uary sunshine.
OF course it is new of course it is a little
crude in some things; of course the Opera
houses are yet to be built, and the system of
sewage yet to be perfected, but if you. are in
clined to complain of these things inst turn
to the telegraph column and read ;"ChieagO,
November, 1S97.-The thermometer at the
| Signal Service office this morning registered
| 80 degrees below zero. Minnesota zephyr
is approaching at the rate OF 80 miles
hour" Then, again, we will have the
Opera Houses and mansions and drives very
soon, and we never will have the billiards.
| or the snow.
A blind man ought to be able to see that
the tide of growth here will be like that of
| the Pontic sea, which ''ne'er knows return
| ing ebb." We have an exceedingly rich and
prosperous people-overy sixty millions
and wealth has accumulated since the war
even in greater ratio than the population.
Money is a drug at A per cent. per annum.
There are more people in the United States
this day who are able to live upon their in
comes, than. there are in Great Britain, Ger
many or Russia. These people have filed
| Florida with costly mansiOns-habitable
only for three or four months in the year,
and they have lined the Atlantic sea-co asst
with summer cities, where the hotels and
cottages are tenantless from October until
June. They are now coming here and
| in five years there will be houses facing the
| sea, within a stones throw of each other, all
the way from Santa Monica to San Diego
bay.
| And of all these miles of coast no place
presents so many attractions as Leucadia
The beach in front of it is better than at any
other point, for the water shoals very slowly
and the surf is very light, and for driving
purposes there is not such a beach on the
coast. 1t is u twenty mile track in perfect
condition, swept and sprinkled and graded
by the tide twice each day. and the tide i,
the best and most economical superintcnd
ent of roads in the country. An abundan
supply OF water for all purposes will bt
piped along every avenue, and the LITTLE
city will, within season or two, be EN-
powered in foliage. Leucadia is about two
thirds of the way to San Diego by the new
road of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fl
Railroad Company, and will command th'
trade of the rich valleys adjacent.
There is only one other such place as Leu
cadia in the world. 1t is little city on tn
Mediterranean, at the foot of the Alps, calle'
Mentone. Sam Cox immortalized the spo
in his 'Search for Winter Sunbeams'; an,
at Mentone the conditions are not as perfec
as at Leucadia, for once in while tn
'mistrael' sweeps down on Mentone, an
the landlords Golfers are depleted by tn
cost of providing fire for the other "cougt
ers." Ca horrible pun, but all tastes mus
be copsulted)
Lots in Mentone, so feet front, sell for so
600 francs. Lots in Leucadia ought to sell q
the auction, October 18th, 1887, for 5000
each, but the chances are they will go at
less figure.
If you want a home, secure one at Leuca
dia You will never be able to do better.
you want to invest and earn three or fou
hundred per cent advance, here Is you
chance, for there are plenty rich asthmatic
consumptives and bronchiters and blizzart
haters who will want Leucadia lots by an
by, and who will pay any price asked fc
them; and Nature has limited the supply {
such combinations of sea and shore, an
soil, and sky, and climate, and their m an,
facture is not progressing fast enough
make it likely. that the market will be owe
stocked during this century. 1t takes {
least one cataclysm to lay the foundations {
such a paradise as Leucadia, and abo,
forty thousand years to bleach the mineri
salts out of the soil so as to make it fit II
orange trees.
We want those enterprising people wh
are here now to get the advantage OF presei
prices. We are willing that those wh
come next year shall pay two or three hui
dred per cent. advance; and they will hay
to pay it whether we are willing or no
You think this is a boom, do you? Well, 1t
hardly the beginning of boom. People wi
pour in here during the coming year by tn
thousands and tens of thousands. They wi
overrun shore and valley and mountai
side. All such town lots as those at Leuc
dia will be snatched up quickly. Be wise
time and secure some of them while the
can be bought for hundreds. After whi
they will sell for thousands.